What is recorded here

Auchengool House stands on Castle Bank in Kirkcudbright, a nineteenth-century building still marked in the national record. It is the kind of address that suggests privilege, distance and certainty, yet none of those things are written in the facts provided. The house may have belonged to merchants, doctors or people who preferred not to be remembered. What is certain is that it was built to be seen, and it is still there to be seen.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kirkcudbright, 1 Castle Bank, Auchengool House as House (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.